Definitions for clarification
clar·i·fi·ca·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. clarification, elucidation, illuminationnoun

   an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

   "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"

2. clearing, clarificationnoun

   the act of removing solid particles from a liquid

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. clarificationnoun

   The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

   The clarification of wine.

2. clarificationnoun

   The act of freeing from obscurities.

   Your ideas deserve clarification.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Clarificationnoun

   The act of making any thing clear from impurities.

   Etymology: from clarify.

   Liquors are, many of them, at the first, thick and troubled; as muste, wort, &c. but to know the means of accelerating clarification, we must first know the causes of clarification. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 301.

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1. clarification

   Clarification is the process of making something easier to understand by providing more details, information, or explanations. The aim is to remove any ambiguity, confusion or misunderstanding. It can also refer to the act of clearing or purifying a substance.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

1. Clarificationnoun

   the act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine

2. Clarificationnoun

   the act of freeing from obscurities

3. Etymology: [Cf. F. clarification, L. clarificatio glorification.]

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1. Clarification

   In journalism, a clarification is used to make a statement in a published story clearer. It refers to a statement in a story that may be subject to a misunderstanding or incorrect assumption. For instance, a published story about teacher layoffs states that the superintendent filed a notice of termination for the affected staff. Although that statement is factually correct as printed, it may lead to the assumption that the teachers were fired that night. A statement—in this case, a clarification—may be required, stating that the teachers then have time to appeal their dismissal before the termination takes effect. A clarification is not the same as a correction, which corrects factual errors in a published story. As with corrections, the policy for reporting statements which need to be made more clear varies with the newspaper; it usually involves a reader calling an editor and pointing out the story elements requiring clarification.

Matched Categories

1. • Improvement
   • Interpretation

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of clarification in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of clarification in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of clarification in a Sentence

1. Sajin De Vas Gunawardena:

   I have written a letter to the (bribery) commission seeking clarification and to say that I am available to be present at the commission any time, anyway, I've no intention of leaving the county. If I had wanted, I'd have gone by now.

2. Lisa Page:

   All Lisa Page is asking is to be treated as other witnesses have under the Committees' own rules, lisa Page has offered to voluntarily appear before the Committees later this month. Lisa Page simply needs clarification of the scope of the Committee's interest in interviewing Lisa Page and access to relevant documents so that Lisa Page can provide complete and accurate testimony.

3. Peter Hotez:

   We need clarification on the percentage of children who have debilitating effects from Covid, especially neurological effects in the developing brain, we need the pediatric neurological societies to really look into this more in depth. ... We tend to use very blunt instruments when talking about either adolescents' or children's deaths, and only hospitalizations. There are so many more dimensions to Covid than that.

4. Speaker Pelosi:

   We did not rebuke her. We acknowledged that she made a clarification.

5. Beau Phillips:

   We coordinate with clinics and hospitals to obtain human tissue and blood -- specimens that would be otherwise be disposed of -- and provide them to biotechnology and academic institutions performing research to find a cure, the nation's and the world's greatest research facilities need a reliable source of healthy human-derived blood, tissue and cellular specimens to perform their studies. As a point of clarification, StemExpress has never requested nor received an intact fetus.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=clarification
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Clarification
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=clarification
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clarification
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=clarification
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=clarification